Pretender Fanatic- my it has been a long time. Glad you've caught up. And don't worry there are still plenty more things that are about to occur that you wont see. Like maybe someone is hiding a secret from everyone including their twin. Or maybe just maybe Will had a role to play in the boys' abduction.

I'm glad you like Benny eventually he will have a major part to play. So will his fellow clone Keegan. Keegan is going to be the one who reveals to his family that something is not right.

Loveroffanfic- The great thing about Keegan is that no one knows just how strong he is and then Keegan isn't really in full control of his abilities. Meaning his abilities are going to start giving him hints about stuff that is going on but he's not really going to understand everything.

Keegan will leaner who he is soon, well not soon chapter wise but soon as in time line wise. And he will have a few problems dealing with the information but luckily he has a uncle who just so happens to be a clone.

CHAPTER 26

AFTER EFFECTS

November 21, 2010

2:03am

Blue Cove, Delaware

Russell Summer Home

Will jolted awake by a blood curling scream. He was confused for a moment and then realized where he was and what was going on. The nightmares had begun. Will flew off of the window seat he and Alley had fallen asleep on. He stumbled over the bodies of Aaron, Andros, Alex, Mike, and Maddie, they too had awoken to the scream.

Blindly Will made his way over to Jason and Jack, the six year old twins were thrashing about wildly in their sleep. Alley was right behind Will. She instinctively knew what was going on and had followed Will, while the five Black Files where still in a sleep induced haze. Alley had lost count of how many times she and Will had dashed down the hall to wake Alex and the others when they were younger, from nightmares.

"Jason. Jace," Will said pinning Jason's arms' to his side so that the boy would not hurt himself during his night terror. Will was vaguely aware that Alley was doing the same thing to Jack, and that the five Black Files had realized what was going on and were checking on Keegan and Pete. Out of the corner of his eye Will saw the door to the studio open, and his parents, uncle Lex, and aunt Julia enter the room.

Will's mind processed all of this information as he used his telepathy to force Jason and Jack to wake up. By the time the Jarod, and Morgan had made their way over to the two sets of twins. Jason was clinging tightly to Will, and Jack was holding on for dear life to Alley. Both six year olds were trembling with terror, and their bodies where racked with sobs. Will closed his own eyes to hold back the tears that threaten to fall.

"Hush now. It's over now Jace. You and Jack are safe now I promise you. I'll never let him get either of you again," Will muttered in Jason's ear in attempt to calm the younger boy down. Will glanced over at Alley and saw that she was trying to calm Jack down. At first Will couldn't make out what Alley was saying to Jack, but he then realized that she was singing to their baby brother.

'Dad hit the lights,' Will told his father telepathically. Jarod turned on a halogen lamp in the corner of the room, that filled the room with a soft glow. With the lights on Jarod was able to study the room. There was a set of pillows and a blanket on the window seat, below the seat were five more pillows and blankets, where the Black Files had laid sleeping. In the Centre of the room were three twin size air mattresses. On the far right was Mike and Maddie, Keegan in between them. On the left was Aaron, Andros, Alex, their arms enclosing Pete who had a look of shock upon his face. The four of them their attention focused on the four people in the middle of the room.

Jarod returned to where Will and Alley sat comforting Jason and Jack. Between the four children Jarod couldn't tell who was more frightened Jason and Jack, or Will and Alley. Jarod's eyes met his son's and Jarod could see that Will was pleading for Jarod to take Jason. Will needed to get out of the room. Jarod understood that it wasn't that Will didn't want to comfort his little brother. The emotions in the room were becoming too much for Will and he need to get out. In the back of his mind Jarod wondered that if the emotions radiating from off of Jason and Jack were too much for Will, how were Jarod's other children holding up. But that thought vanished as quickly as it occured. Jarod knew that Will had somehow managed to construct mental walls around his younger siblings to protect them from the onslaught of emotions, and now Will had stretched his abilities as far as he could and was about to break.

"Zane," Jarod said crouching down, his joints popping in the process. "Why don't you and Gabe come with me and Momma," Jarod suggested. Jason burrowed his face into Will's side, and for the briefest of moments Jarod was jealous of the bond Will and Alley shared with Jason and Jack.

"Zane," Will said in a rare moment of using Jason's proper name. "Go with Momma and Daddy. They'll make you and Gabriel some hot chocolate, and it will help you two sleep better." Jason loosened his grip from around Will's waist and Will passed Jason to Jarod, as Alley passed Jack to Morgan.

"I'll be back," Will promised, as he got up from the air mattress.

"Where are you going?" Morgan asked her son.

"I'll find out when I get there," Will replied as he left the room.

"William," Jarod called after his son. Will didn't turn around.

"Alyssa could you please go after your brother," Morgan begged her eldest daughter. Alley nodded her head in reply.

"He saw something. Now he won't allow you follow him," Keegan whispered in his British accent.

"Will has never been able to keep me from following him," Alley told Keegan as she pulled on her shoes. Her face then paled as she felt Will cut the telepathic bond he shared with Alley.

"Damn it William," Alley hissed.

"What's wrong?" Jarod asked.

"Will cut the bond we share. But don't worry I'll find him," Alley said. "Big Brother forgot I'm a pretender as well."

"He went where he felt safest," Keegan told Alley.

"Thanks little cousin," Alley said as she left the house in order to find her brother.

November 21, 2010

2:14am

Blue Cove, Delaware

Russell Summer Home

Will had no idea where he was going. He was moving on autopilot, as he pulled on his shoes and coat, grabbed his keys and drove for a destination unknown. It wasn't until Will pulled into the parking lot that he realized where he had been driving to. He turned off the car and looked up at the building that had held him prisoner for so long. Will got out of his car and entered the former Centre building. There was a lone guard at the front desk other than that the halls were deserted.

"You're here late Mr. Russell," The guard said with a bit of a sneer.

"I'm here to pick up some files for my Father" Will said, his face then paled and he gasped. Will quickly walked away from the guard.

The guard was a old Centre sweeper named Ford. And though he was left over from the old Centre regimen, Sam had vouched for Ford, knowing that Ford was one of the few decent men that the centre had employed. Ford had been kind to the former Centre subjects and unlike many of the former Centre sweepers Ford held no animosity towards any of the Centre subjects. Save one.

Twelve years prior Ford's brother Brandon had been accidently kill by a former Centre project. The project was a seven year old boy, who had lost control of his pyrokinesis due to the mass amount of grief, pain, and anger that had consumed him. That boy was Will.

Will approached the elevators. With a shaky hand he pushed the call button for the elevator, and waited. The elevator dinged and Will entered the car, anxious to get away from Ford. Once the doors had closed Will opened the control panel, and rewired it so that he would be able to access the off limit sub levels. When he reached his desired floor Will exited the elevator car and began to walk the dark, dusty corridor.

It had been another life time since he had last walked the halls of the lower sub levels, but Will knew his way even without the assistance of light. He approached one of the many steel doors and turned the handle knowing that it door was unlocked. All doors on the off limit sub levels were unlocked. Every since the former subjects of the Centre had been liberated there had been no reason to lock the doors.

Will entered the room and saw that in thirteen years it hadn't changed. Will had thought that his father would have had every piece of furniture in the room incinerated. But it all remained, coated in a fine layer of dust. The only thing missing was the origami figure of Onisius, that Will himself had removed form the room on his last visit almost twelve years ago. A lifetime ago.

Will walked over to his father's old bed and sat down. A plum of dust jutted up and Will coughed. He sat there for five minutes staring off in to space before the tears began to fall. Will hadn't allowed himself to cry since he had his mental breakdown shortly after his parents wedding.

"Keegan said you were going where you felt safe. My first thought was the air vent to Momma's office. But then I realized that you've always been closer to Daddy," Alley said entering the cell. In her hand was a small ball of fire that illuminated Alley's face, and a small portion of the room around her. Will turned to face his twin and Alley could see that his face was tear streaked.

"You asked me once, years ago why I waited so long to escape, after I thought you were dead. Well one of the reasons is that was I was afraid of the outside world. I felt safer in the Centre, I understood how everything worked. I knew who to push and who not to. I knew when to fight back and when not to," Will whispered, as Alley sat down next to her brother.

"Will what did you see?" Alley asked. Will let out a strangled sob, and Alley wrapped her arms around him. Will stiffened in her embrace ready to pull back. "It's okay Aiden," Alley said using Will's middle name. "You don't have to be strong in front of me."

Will let down his facade and let the tears fall. "I saw it all Alley. I saw what that man did to Jason and Jack I felt their pain, their fright, their loss of faith. They thought that we would never come for them. They thought we had abandoned them. He told them that we weren't going to come for them. At first the boys, they didn't believe him so he hit them. And when hitting them wasn't enough... God Alley they wanted to die," Will wept. Alley cried alongside her brother, for with every word Will spoke he unknowingly relayed every single moment he had read off of Jason and Jack. Alley felt the boys utter lack of hope that they endured for twenty three days.

Will and Alley clung to each other as they wept for the loss of their baby brother's innocense.

"We need to get back soon," Alley said a while later drying her tears on the cuff of her jacket. "Momma and Daddy will be worried about us."

"I-I'll meet you there. I-I can't, I need to see Jamie," Will stuttered. Alley nodded her head in understanding, she couldn't blame Will. At the moment all Alley wanted to do was curl up in Jeff's arms and just forget about everything.

"I'll let Momma and Daddy know that you're safe," Alley told her brother.

"Thanks Alley," Will said placing a kiss on his sister's forehead.

"Welcome Big Brother," Alley replied.

"Al listen I need you to do something else for me. Call Uncle Sam and tell him to send an agent or two over," Will said as the twins got up form the bed.

"Why?" Alley asked confusion etched on her brow.

"You'll find out shortly," Will said darkly as they walked towards the elevator.

As Will rewired the elevator Alley placed the call to Sam. The elevator reached the lobby and the twins exited. Alley had reached the front doors to the building before she even realized that Will was no longer beside her. She turned around and saw that Will stood at the guard station, talking to Ford.

"I can't take back what I did, but know that it was not intentional. Know that I was not in any way, shape, or form trying to cause harm to your brother. It was Raines I wanted not Brandon. I was hurting, and I was angry. I thought that Raines had killed my sister, and I wanted revenge. You see for the first seven years of my life Alley was all I had when she was taken from me I didn't know how I was expected to survive. I'm telling you this in hopes that you understand what happened that day. I am sorry for what I did. I killed three men and it is a burden I will shoulder for the rest of my life. With that said it's been twelve years Ford, you need to move on," Will told the man.

"I've spent over a decade of my life hating you, and you expect for me to just let it go?" Ford said between gritted teeth.

"Yes," Will said evenly. "You've gotten your revenge on me. It took twelve years but you finally got it. You wanted me to suffer as much as you did when Brandon died and I have, so let it go."

Alley gasped realizing why Will had her call Sam.

"I just want you to realize Ford that not only did I suffer but so did dozens of other people, my parents, my aunts and uncles, my cousins, Alley, Aaron, Andros, Alex, and three boys. Three boys who partly thinks to you went though hell. Do you have any, any idea at all what they did to them?" Will shouted his voice reverberating through the empty building.

"I didn't know that he would hurt them," Ford whispered the realization of what he had done hitting home.

"Bull shit," Will hissed. "You knew exactly. But none of that mattered to you. You used my baby brothers to hurt me, you didn't give a damn about who else you hurt in the process. So tell me Ford was it worth it?"

"I never thought it would go this far. He just wanted for me to make sure that no one would find them down there. But I knew that you all would find them eventually. It wasn't like I could tell your parents. He would have me killed. I'm probably a dead man now." Ford said.

Will closed his eyes and shook his head in disgust. He then took a deep breath to calm his emotions.

"Listen, I'm going to give you a choice, my sister has already called the FBI. Go quietly cooperate with them and I'll see that they go easy on you. If you don't follow their every demand to the T, I will see to it that you know exactly what my twelve years in the Centre was like. I will have you transferred to Rikers and you will bunk with my uncle Robert. You might know him better as Mr. Lyle. And believe me Lyle was none to happy to learn that his nephews where taken." Will snarled. For a moment Ford was reminded of the former Centre Ice Queen, Miss Parker. It was painfully obvious that Will was her son, and just why Mr. Parker had once wanted the boy and his twin to take over the chairmanship of the Centre.

"I-I'll c-cooperate," Ford stuttered intimidated by Will's fiery red eyes.

"Good," Will said.

Up Next: Alley, Jarod and Morgan make Will face some truths about his self. And then it bad enough Will blames himself for what he views as his role in the boys abduction but the last person Will ever expected to blame him for the boys abduction does.
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